Sunday, March 06, 2005

Its hard to know where to begin to tell you about the last few days. All the best photos, all the best wildlife and all the best scenery has been over this period. A group of five of us set off on Friday up into the Andes and onto the Southern Altiplano. Vast barren areas, red and white salt lakes, thousands of flamingoes, gysers, mirror lakes, wild llamas, snow capped giants...everything you would and would not expect to find driving at altitudes between 4000-5000m. All in an area known as "Reserva de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa". Sickness was a little problem on the first night, but coca tea takes away the headaches, a few days later and we are all aclimitized to the height. We are now in Uyuni and today went out onto the worlds largest salt flat, The Salar de Uyuni. Again incredible, and again one of the highlights of my entire trip. In this alien world there is no sky and no ground. The few inches of water covering white salt and over 8000sq km create a mirror that reflects everything on its surface and the entire sky as far as you can see.

Sticking with some of the people from the journey, we are off to Potosi, the highest city in the world, and at one time the richest. This displayed in some of the 18 churches that occupy the small town.

More Snaps.










3 Comments:

At 7:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

That last photo is quite extraordinary Robin. Its hard to believe that its not a Photoshop trick! Glad you are enjoying the Andes so much. Mum x

 
At 10:44 AM, Blogger Celeste said...

Wow!

Stunning pictures.

I now have you set as my background image on my pc at work.

Love n hugs
Celeste

 
At 7:52 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was bored so I decided to make it into a photoshop trick.

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/jim/robfly.jpg

jim (whoelse)

 

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